John S. Coleman
List of John Benjamins publications in which John S. Coleman is involved.
Articles
2024 Using acoustic-phonetic simulations to model historical sound change Demystifying New Methods in Historical Linguistics , Round, Erich (ed.), pp. 355–378 | Article
We introduce a method for investigating sound change using audio proxies and interpolation between them. Using this method leads us to consider the possible trajectories of attested sound changes in acoustic space and allows us to run speech perception experiments with the interpolated sounds to… read more
2000 Proto-Indo-European ‘laryngeals’ were vocalic Diachronica 17:2, pp. 351–387 | Article
SUMMARY We have argued that the ‘laryngeals’ reconstructed for PIE were vocalic in nature. This is in line with Saussure’s original classification of the ‘laryngeals’ as vowels but runs counter to the prevalent modern view that they were fricatives. According to the ‘vocalic’ hypothesis that we… read more